Well, you wanna talk about what didnt happen? said Collins, desperately trying to change the direction of the debate. The Democrats have refused to even read the memo … they havent read the memo.

Camerota quickly corrected him. The Democrats obviously know whats in it, since they wrote a 10-page rebuttal, point by point, to it.

As Collins quickly tried to backpedal, Camerota said, Lets talk about the committee. The House Intel Committee votes to release the Republican memo. They vote to not release the Democratic rebuttal to the Republican memo. Hows that fair?

Collins spent nearly a minute trying to tap-dance around the question, saying he has complete confidence in Nunes and that he doesn’t know what the Democrats wrote. But after Camerota asked him again whether Democrats should be allowed to release their own memo, Collins finally conceded, I would say they should.

Even Collins, one of the biggest Trump flacks in Congress, could not justify the committee’s decision to block any analysis or criticism of Nunes’ memo from being released. Republicans are plainly talking from both sides of their mouth on transparency, and it is indefensible.

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